I know in France they require the physical server to be in France. USA still probably has ways to get their data.
The U.S. is building huge data centers in Utah to store everyone's data. Luke the whole worlds. But they can access Amazon's, IBMs, googles , Microsofts servers when ever they want. They can make physical modifications to the hardware and not allow any of those companies access while they are doing it. They make appointments for this. Its common practice.
They can use the post office to justify the funding. They just say its for scanning mail. Which they actually do, I get email copies of my mail. Pictures of the front. But that's not where all the money is going. No one in IT believes that of course but everyone else just says "whatever".
squashkin@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
something I think about is even if all that content is being mirrored, how can they even sift through it meaningfully? there's enough info being generated by a handful of people, to keep people busy consuming content full time.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
They were able to hunt specific people and 2 degrees of separation, so friends of friends. That was what we know from Snowden, 10 years ago. Since then content has exploded by orders of magnitude, so its unlikely they can go to 3rd degree. Sources like Fbook, Big banks etc are easy for retrieving info on specific people. They had systems for such retrieval for 10 - 15 years. NSA likely have systems to feed this data and search via metadata or images.
Lauren Southern interviewed her ex-Aussie detective recently, who explained how they did this daily in Australia and other 5 eyes countries. Can find the link if you are interested. Should be on her Youtube channel from around the time of Convoy protests, so February I think.
squashkin@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I am perhaps not communicating my point correctly or something.
There is more content being generated than they have the manpower to go through. I do not doubt they can retrieve stuff or sort through it. But they are unable to look at all of it. It seems like too much. But perhaps they have enough power to only look at a few people of interest.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
They will be limited in how many targets they can process. Snowden revealed 2 degrees at the time. So if a person interacts with 100 people over a year, that is upto 10,000 people to investigate for one person of interest. That's a lot of manhours for a single target. Likely that's the worst case, and they must also have ways to triage.
But you are right, they cannot spy on ALL of us, or even a significant number. Too much shit, lol
mayonesa@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Contact tracing, voice print, filtering for keywords, looking for patterns of behavior.
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
AI is really good. They know your next post before you do
squashkin@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
what i mean is no matter the ai, humans can only read maybe a summary of what is recorded, it may be impossible to sift through the data being generated beyond snippets of it
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
They use it to train AI models. Machines can use that data to learn about what effects human decisions , emotions, spending habits. Everything you need to control a population.